The Quest for Moral Law

Louise Saxe Eby

Published by Columbia University Press 1944

The Quest for Moral Law

Louise Saxe Eby

https://doi.org/10.7312/eby-94072

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Examines the ultimate aim of ethics in moral law from many different perspectives including, Confucius, Buddha, Aristotle, and Jesus.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Part One: Some Classic Ethical Systems
I. The Meaning of Moral Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II. The Chinese Mind in Ethics: Confucius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
III. The Radical Ethic of Gautama, the Buddha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
IV. Socrates, Pioneer of the Western Ethical Thinkers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
V. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
VI. Jesus and the Jewish-Christian Ethical Heritage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
VII. Spanning the Realms of Nature and Grace: Saint Thomas Aquinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
VIII. Pantheism and Determinism in the Ethic of Benedict de Spinoza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
IX. Kant’s Construction: the Categorical Imperative of Duty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
X. The Impact of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries on Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part Two: Making Ethics a Science
XI. The Content Of Moral Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
XII. The Problem of Ethical Method Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
XIII. Unsolved Problems and Undiscerned Ends in Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
XIV. The Dimensions of Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
XV. The Aim of Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Copyright year: 1944
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 290

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780231896856